A drawing I made during my MA to tell the story of the sockeye salmon. The sockeye salmon as a key stone species, illustrating how the fish creates an ecosystem of reliance, from bears eating the salmon and leaving parts of the body which nourish and fertilise the riparian zone, to orcas and sea otters relying on the salmon as a food source. Salmon structure and balance ecosystems, that is why it is important to protect them from overfishing, salmon farms which create parasites that can…
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